Multiculturalism
By Suriyankumaran, Gaetano Greco and Michael Cooke
In GLW #348 Iggy Kim posed the rhetorical question "Does multiculturalism defend migrant rights?". The answer is, not very well. For all the improvements, "racism continues to
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By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — The privatisation of the Electricity Trust of South Australia looks certain to go ahead following ALP legislative councillor Trevor Crothers' announcement on June 3 that he has come to an agreement with Liberal
On May 28, about 400 members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) at East Swanson Dock terminal met for eight hours and discussed the enterprise bargaining offer by P&O Ports, which is designed to match the changes implemented by Patrick
By Norm Dixon
Whatever direction NATO's attack on former Yugoslavia takes in coming weeks — either a ground war or a deal that ends the bombing — there is one group of people who cannot lose — United States capitalists. On May 20, the US
Freedom of association
SYDNEY — The May 27 Sydney Morning Herald reported that the federal government hastily dropped a plan to allow employers to sack workers for being union members after the paper asked the office of industrial relations
Pelican Point campaign continues
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — Opponents of the proposed power station at Pelican Point on the Le Fevre Peninsula are continuing their campaign, despite the determination of the state Liberal government to push
Creative reading
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries
Like a dog to a hydrant
"The West Australian Democrats leader, MLC Ms Helen Hodgson ... said ... [the Democrats' GST deal with the federal government] gave 'a leg up to the poor'." — Sydney Morning Herald, May 31.
Opportunity knocks
"Billions
By John Pilger
The room is filled with the bodies of children killed by NATO in Surdulica in Serbia. Several are recognisable only by their sneakers. A dead infant is cradled in the arms of his father. These pictures and many others have not been
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The Wilderness Society and other conservation groups have called a rally in King George Square on June 14, at noon, to demand an end to the destruction of native forests in south-east Queensland. A leaflet issued by the
PRD rallies with masses in Jakarta
By Sam King
JAKARTA — On May 28, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in support of Megawati Sukarnoputri and her Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-S). Thousands of workers, urban poor, students
'More like a demonstration than an election campaign'
By Edward Johnstone and Karen Fredericks
SOLO — The centre of the city of Solo in Central Java is a burnt-out shell, ravaged by anti-Chinese riots orchestrated by the military in its
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